and barriers are for non-attendance. we want to compile that data in a searchable way to look for more, a bigger picture things for asking what comes up a lot on what is holding kids back from school whether it's transportation issues and do we have issues where families are not as comfortable come to our schools and we would like to use the system to identify that. at the same time, we want to, when ever we agree to an intervention and use that tracking system to hold those accountability and intervention. we want to ensure every principal gets a report for those who finish the threshold for each

chronic absenteeism. we are asking for information from each and every chronic situation why and what are the barriers and then step three, we would partner across the city to address the issues that we see arising from these services. >> in terms of the analysis, it's something that didn't exist 6 years ago. a couple of questions around data. one of the things that i spoke about several years ago was their need for the city and the community

and the city partners and i noticed also that in your description of your campaign, much of it was internal which is good. i'm glad that the district is going to focus on it. the other thing that i brought up 6 years ago was that, we need to utilize the resources outside of the school district. i don't think this is a school district stand-alone problem. i think it's a city problem. i'm hoping that we'll do a better job when we look at the resources that we have to address the citywide problem. no. 1, are we sharing data. >> thank you, supervisor yee, i represent the district on the shared use data base committee. we do have an mou still

going back and forth to the city attorney's office. we eventually that data, it's a shared data base within each district. juvenile probation. there are triggers, each of the institutions of certain triggers that will red flag when a family and individual triggers that agency and support. or triggers is one of the indicated in attendance. when a student is 10%, that student will be red flagged and we'll alert the other agencies . we are not using it yet. we are still meeting. this has been years and years in meeting but we are on the homestretch and we'll address that soon. >> let me press on this one a little bit now. the homestretch is around the block? >> i don't know.

your guess is as good as mine. >> what are the barriers at this point? is there something we can do from this seat? >> i really don't know. it's language. >> i'm sitting here and i have heard similar discussions years ago and i'm, you know, you are frustrated, i'm frustrated. frustration by itself doesn't do anything. what is it that we need to get this moving. we can't be sitting around and having more kids fail. we need to

share with the community members and they need to be doing their part in this. it's really frustrating to me that we are not there yet. >> supervisor yee, i agree that frustration goes no where if we just sit here and hearing the presentationarily yes, sir, it gives us a sense of urgency to do something. i have to say through your leadership in developing the children's and families council really is that leverage for data agreement work forward. now we have a piece of legislation to point our city attorney's to to say look, it's in the charter. we have to do this. whatever it takes to move and to move past our separate institutions, that's what they are working on. you know, it's understandable that each city attorney on each institution trying to make sure the best interest of children at the end of the day is protected.

so, i think we are moving forward and unfortunately taking a little bit more time. i have to say through your legislation, 2 years ago that is really helping to kick this a little further. >> one other question about the, i know that it wasn't presented, but we also know that there is quite a few that are in the category of having high percentages of chronically absent students. correct me if i am wrong, currently there is 12 high schools, 67% of them have chronic absenteeism rate above 11%. and when you look at elementary schools, 29% of 72 of schools have it above 11%. one of the more

disheartening information i have gotten that one of schools has 39% of the kids chronically absent which is 6 years ago there was one school that has 39%, close to 40%. is that 40% of the students that be chronically absent and now we still have not maybe one school. this is really frightening that we still have a school with that high rate. is the data available and then, no. 1, to really specifying. the purpose to date for me is i would like to see if there is any improvement over all. >> yes, i think the big

development each schools chronic absenteeism is recording that data that staff is pulling there. and it is part of the schools report card. we used to have something call the the api, the academic performance index. the new index is now the sqii which addresses the chronic absenteeism and also looks at the subgroups. we are in a much more accountable era for attendance. what you are seeing there, is we are looking at it as a baseline. because we now have all of this new data system potentials to address the students individually and also support individual schools with individual intensive plans

which is our intention. >> what i want to just add is yes, we have the numbers now. we have percentage and data, but we need to move beyond that. we are

>>supervisor london breed: when we look at the children that we are having challenges with, i see one of the district's supports is home visits. we know that not every kid has possibly the best home environment,

and i know that can be challenging and especially now more than ever with the passage of peace and the children's fund and all of this new money that's being poured into the school districts and services we have to do a better job at being more aggressive when we know these children are having trouble in their home environment, that is no. 1 and no. 2, we knew in many instances these children were in unhealthy environments and we brought in school districts, social workers and even the police to help that child grow and thrive in school. there was just

really no solution, no real possibility of somehow getting that child into a better environment or no link between getting a child in a healthy home environment to getting them into a healthy home environment. i remember one situation where there was one of the women who had children, somebody i grew up with and there were just some real challenges around her children being used to commit illegal activities by her, by the mother. the -- bringing the mother and family in and trying to correct the behavior and help her with a job opportunity, help her with social services and getting her on the right path, the follow through was

not there. my grandmother raised us and my brother would skill school all the time and spent his whole life in and out of jail and he's still incarcerated right now. my grandmother did her best, but she couldn't control my brother, but there was no one really knocking on our door saying why isn't he in school. we would get phone calls. eventually he never even graduated from high school. so, i would like to see a little bit more of the folks who work for the school district adding more people to do home visits, to meet people where they are and be committed in their faces. the reason why i did well was because i ended up working for the mayor's youth employment training program and i had these mentors and i didn't why they were helping but they were in my face

all the time and holding me accountable and i had these grown ups who cared about me and asked me about my life and what was going on and working with me and my grandmother and eventually i did okay and i even went to college. what i'm saying here is we need more adults who are hands-on with our children, and who are not just picking up the phone and making the calls, but nothing on the doors and people who really care about focusing on these individual children and just doing a real wrap around service support to get them on the right path. it's not a perfect solution, but working with one kid and i will give you an example. i had, when i was at the african american art and culture complex, there was one kid, grandmother was raising him but she was drinking and had problems and eventually i had him come stay with me. i worked with the

grandmother, i made sure he had tutors and got him on the right path. he graduated from high school and now working on a program for the city and doing clean up and graffiti abatement. the point is these kids need an advocate and doesn't have just someone showing up because it's their job but because it is an advocacy. we need more people and social workers to do this job. it is a hard job and you don't get a lot of praise for it but hopefully these kids end up doing well and they can take care of themselves and they don't end up being locked up.

i just want to really target them early and make sure that there is compassion, that there is support, that there is consistency and we don't let up. elementary school is easy. once they get to junior high and high school, we are talking about another ball game. we should be just as persistent and supporting them. i want to make sure that we add those components to what we are doing when we talk about home visits. >>mayor edwin m. lee: thank you, supervisor breed. supervisor breed, you hit the nail on the head. i have to say that sometimes it really takes our personal experiences to realize what works and what doesn't work. certainly one of my early experiences as a teacher for a public school where kids were bussing from the mission, none of the parents showed

up for teacher parent conference and i didn't just say, oh, it's too bad. i went to visit them in the evening on my own town and it made such a big difference. and years later, when it was my organization, we had the largest number of parent liaison doing home visiting in any organization in san francisco, and so, yes, i really do support your notion in this and at the end this hearing, i will ask for an action plan for this. i want to bring up the rest of the community. sorry to keep you guys waiting. thank you very much for your presentation, mr. gravn. maria su and

ocof and ocff. because you are part of the school district, this is not public testimony right now, but you are part of the school district. presenter: thank you supervisors for allowing me to speak right now. i'm from the san francisco board of education. i would like to thank you for bringing up this topic. it's a call for action for us and how it's so directly related to the academic achievement of our students. we had a presentation on the african american achievement and chronic absenteeism as one of the challenges. i'm glad that we are getting better data and i want to . that it disproportionately affects a certain group of children, and we

are talking about our african american and latino children. it's a few things that are in common. it is the responsibility of our district and the city to address it in those terms. we are talking about schools and how it's concentrate in certain schools. we look at those schools and they have the highest concentration of those populations and uncredentialed teachers and the highest concentration of turnover of teachers. they also have the highest concentration of students that do not show up. we promise to the families to give them a high quality consistent education. we are now facing an unprecedented teachers and substitute

teachers. they are underpaid and they are not showing up and they are affecting the education of these students. we say to the parents everyday that a day your child is not in school is without instruction. i think that is a partnership we should work on between the city and also our school district. then we can talk about families and the younger grades and when we get to the older grades that is a different story. >> so what are we doing with the older grades for those in school and why are they not making this successful and in the lessons that they are learning and also in the courses that we are teaching. are they relevant to their lives. i think those are the things that we should be looking at because it is also, i have also asked that we look at, our african american students

actually shift around a lot from school to school. that is unusual among other groups. so i just ask for the school district to look into how this shifting from school to school transferring 2-3 schools, how does that affect a child's education. do the services following that child. are they immediately enrolling into school and immediately a lifetime. i know that every time that her family situation was not as supportive with the family, and i know that every time that the school said to the parents that her mother would shift to schools and there was a time in between leaving one school and enrolling into the next

school. can we capture that time and follow those types of things. our promise also to the parents are if you get them to school, our promise is we will -- educate your child. their support is on our side. on the city's side, we need to look at these groups and heavy transportation and not so much for the school system. we know that transportation in the city is not distributed. and for those that never show up. that is an issue also. this is a continuous problem. which means once we get our family on board and they are sending their child to school, we could not give

up. we could not disregard that family and say now they don't need that service because these children will fall back into chronic absenteeism. thank you for calling this, supervisor yee. it is a call to action and every time we talk about this and also when we see the data. >> thank you very much, commissioner feuer. it is a pleasure sitting on the board of education with you because it were one of the commissioners that knew what i was talking about when everybody was looking at me like i was crazy. thank you for being here. maria sue. presenter: i just want to thank supervisor yee for calling this hearing and apply president breed for moving the item forward. to me it's very very helpful. so as you

have already heard from a lot of our speakers. chronic absenteeism is a huge issue and we need to understand the consequences of chronic absenteeism on the families and on the system. in looking forward to the support services, we need to address the legal system, community, families, social services as well as faith based communities and other leaders in our community to help our students and young people succeed. i do believe that it is our responsibility as a city to ensure that all young people are equipped with educational and knowledge to be successful. promoting school attendance is an important part of our responsibility and one of the goals of our department. i want to highlight a couple of key initiatives that our department is doing and then yield the rest of the time

to some of the other departments that will actually share a lot of the initiatives that president breed mentioned like family support and coordinated family management which i believe are the right strategies to support chronic absenteeism. i want to start by highlighting violence prevention in case management programs. between july 2012-june 2014. we have 28 programs that offer kid management services and it was for 3078 people. the majority services they provide is support for education attainment. a lot of these young people are at risk for entering the juvenile justice system and most of our case managers provide a lot of support and to our school district to the justice system and through their

peer relationships and their community. 2 quarters of youth show risk in the years prior to or in the years their in case management with our cbo's. out of 1719 youth of that data, 76% had school risk meaning they are at risk of getting a d or f or dropping out of school. another thing i wanted to highlight is tours at the resources center and in full partnership with the school district, the d. a.'s office, juvenile probation department and cbo's. served 120 students last

year and report 88% of students that received services through tarp received more than 100 hours of management services to reengage them into their schools. the other initiative i want to highlight is a new one that we got funding from the department of justice. the juvenile alternatives to suspension program. we are running this initiative out of valley middle school. that's primarily because we really acknowledge there is a shortage of programs and support for our middle school students. this initiative is in partnership with juvenile probation, school district and our cb o provider, rock, real opportunities for kids. it's a school base behavioral health program and once again it's there to

support our middle school students at visitation valley to engage in school and to participate in a more full manner at school. the last couple of initiatives i want to highlight are our summer transition program which is intended to compliment academic instruction that the school district provides at the school year in summer months to support the students to transition and support middle school students to transition to high school. and then our last two our teen program and wellness programs. of the teen program and wellness programs the majority of those programs serve young people who have academic needs and need academic support to stay engaged in schools. we truly believe that in order to address chronic absenteeism we need every person in the village to come

together an work together because it is multifaceted. there are issues ranging from the young person not feeling great in school and the parents being involved. every child that doesn't go to school, that child doesn't learn. we know it's very important for that young person to go to school and it's important to be a part of multi-collaborative efforts to move this forward. i once again thank you supervisor yee for calling attention to this very important issue. >> thank you, dr. sue, you aligned a few initiatives. i'm just curious. i know you also go through your planning process in terms of what's going to be part of your accomplishments for the upcoming years and spending your plan. i'm

just wondering, how is chronic absenteeism being developed into the community needs. of all the resources and funding we can talk only one. >> similar to what president breed was mentioned before, we are very fortunate that dcyf received not only in our extension in the department's life but also decreasing in the life to our department. we have been in the last year or so, engaging our community partners and actually convening community meetings at all districts and we'll continue to do that for the next several months to talk about what are the needs out there to support our children and youth and families to be successful. the things that we are hearing a lot are family support. so, it's great that over the past several years, dcyf has

prioritized and creating more access for people and creating quality proclamation. what we have not done enough of is supporting their parents and supporting their guardians and caregivers. like first five and the human services agencies is how do we provide that level of support for our families and caregivers. also in terms of conversations with our school districts is how do we create a continuum of learning for young people that not only tarts starts in the school day but continues in communities after school hours and now it's more intentional what that looks like. both of these lead to addressing some of the issues that leads a young person to be chronically

absent. >>supervisor norman yee: thank you very much. supervisor breed? >>supervisor london breed: thank you, ms. sue, for all the work you do to support the programs. i know it's really challenging and i want to make a few comments and ask a few questions. when i think about all the money that's being spent on a lot of programs in our city and whether or not those programs are actually delivering, that's important to me because we are talking about the difference between life and death when we are allocating funds to an organization and that organization is responsible for working with our children and they are not effective, they are not serving our children effectively. i want to comment that i appreciate all the work that you have done to work with organizations and to hold them accountable. i know it is hard to take away funding

from programs, but i want to make it clear that a case to be made if a program is not supporting our children properly that it is appropriate to stop funding because there are other programs that need money. there are other programs that are serving a lot of children that don't have the capacity to serve our children and we should not award them with our dollars. i also want to talk about stipends and other programs. with i was 14 not too long ago, almost anyone who wanted a job who i was growing up with, we knew that as soon as we turned 14, we were going to be able to get a work permit to get a job to start working. that is so important because, you know, i grew up in poverty. so we didn't have money and

my grandmother, she didn't have money to always give me for lunch or other things in high school and it's tough when you can't buy the latest fashion or go somewhere else and do the things a lot of kids can do. especially when you are a teenager, employment opportunity is very important. so having this fund and all the additional dollars that we have on the table, is it possible to get a commitment from the department of youth and families to ensure that every teenager especially in our public school system will have the opportunity to work once they turn 14 especially in the summer and possibly year-round? >> yes, it's possible. the mayor has made it very public that jobs and employment opportunities are a

priority for him. and he's directed to us partner with the office of economic and workforce development and with the human services agencies to think about how do we provide appropriate youth employment opportunities for young people. it's not to say that every young person is ready for a job right off the bat. you, supervisor breed, might be, but other young people would need a little bit more support such as barrier removal. >> believe me, i was a problem child. i have gotten suspended. i talked back and i was at the principals office. i went through my challenges too, and again, having an opportunity and working with my first job at 14 was at the family school. and it was for women who were over 18 who had children who needed child care and working to get their ged.

all of a sudden i'm getting paid and i'm getting responsibility and i'm having these adults talking to me and telling me about life and telling me about my future and potential things that could help change my life. i get what you are saying because i have had those same kids who were not ready to work for me at the cultural center. they weren't ready, but it wasn't about whether they were ready, we were ready to making sure they were going to be ready for us to work with them. getting those children into an opportunity where they are getting paid is so important especially when they don't have household income that can help support them especially at teenagers. i just want us to do what we can to do better. it just takes making sure we are identifying locations that really care about working with our kids so

that we can -- and then making it a little bit easier for them to do the paperwork associated with getting reimbursed with all the other thing that you have to do to get funding. those are the programs that i want to support, the ones that are effective and roll up their sleeves and work with our children that have challenges and work with stipends and jobs as an option. i think we have to make a commitment and make that a priority. i get the truancy issue that can be a problem if they are missing school especially if they have an opportunity to get a job year-round and get paid to be part of a program somehow. i think that makes a really big difference. i wanted to also say that and thank you for your work. >> thank you very much, supervisor breed. >>supervisor norman yee: right now i'm going to move it along and bring up dr. skolari from ocf, the

our children and our family's council. presenter: thank you very much. i would like to acknowledge you supervisor yee for our support of our child's council. you may recall there was an initiative from proposition c in 2014 to align the city and county initiatives with the school district and the community. so the goal of it overall is to improve outcomes for all of our children and families throughout the city. with the em assist on those with greatest needs. the council itself is cochaired by the mayor and

the superintendent. there are 13 county leaders from the school districts from the mayor that sit on this council and come together to address issues such as chronic absenteeism. there are over 15 individuals participating on working groups actively working to addressed all the issues that are outlined by the council itself. i would like to give you a copy. i have a few copies here from the outcomes framework recently released. it's 180 pages. i hope you have the at some point to look through it at some point. for our children and families there are deliverables. the first is to look at the outcomes framework that you have before you now. it was adopted by the council on january 28th of this year.

that framework itself outlines the milestones that the ste a school district and community want all children and all families in san francisco to reach. so, for the council has come to gather to create this framework itself that we can align our priorities as a city together. now that we have that framework created, the next phase of the work is to create a 5-year plan to create that do you -- document. that plan as to how to make this come to life and how to make the changes happen for youth and families across the city. the third one is data sharing. now as mentioned by dr. sue, we have an initiative written into legislation that says we must share data, we must figure out how to share data across the school district and the city and we have a

convening workgroup cochaired at the mayor's office and john burr at the school district and 25 individuals who work on data across the city and get to the issue. why can't we get the data sharing agreements together. they are stuck in legal is what we hear. we are bringing together 25 leaders coming together to finally address this issue in a form of a working group. the first data deliverable is the service inventory to create a citywide online one stop shop for all services for children and family youth across the city. we are starting this summer by organizing all of the summer services on a summer piety on line that goes live tomorrow and the coming year we'll add all the services across the city. i would like to point you to the outcomes framework on page

17 on the larger document that you have or it is in the shorter powerpoint. the outcomes framework itself outlines five major goals that we have come to agree as a city that we need to reach. the goals and there are 19 measures. we have 5 major goals an 19 measures. within one of those goals is school attendance and that's when we get to the issue of chronic absenteeism. what we know is that you cannot address the issue of school attendance without looking at the whole child. so it's important to connect what's happening around chronic absenteeism to the larger goal which is if we want students to thrive in a 21st century learning environment that the child

must attend school regularly and looking at the whole child. we also need them to live in a nurturing environment, we need them to obtain economic stability and housing security and we need to make sure they are physically and emotionally and mentally healthy and if we can get them to attend school regularly they will thrive in a learning environment and e, they will succeed in post secondary education and able to earn a wage in this city. we are looking at the whole, all of these initiatives. it was brought up earlier. the goal around our children and aligning all of these services together but with a particular focus on equity. the powerpoint that you have in front of you is bringing up the

issue around chronic absenteeism and which are the groups affected by absenteeism. we know that african american and islanders of the school are the once with the most problems around attendance. we need to look at it in other lenses. what we are pushing for is to look at are there equity gaps around neighborhood of residents. are there gaps around primary language, grade level, cross-referencing the issue of chronic absenteeism and all other issues of lenses of equity. that's a basic overview so you can understand how chronic absenteeism list these 19 measures overall. >>supervisor norman yee: thank you for your presentation. the report framework that you are

talking about. the framework is what i had hoped for in terms of incorporating beyond just children in the services. as you mentioned and as supervisor breed will understand, this is not just about the services of children and everything else that impacts them whether it's housing, employment opportunities. i'm glad this is in here. i hope you flush out chronic absenteeism in a more visible way. i would love to see some wordings in there. >> this is only the basic framework. the next phase is a 5-year plan which will be created around july and you will see more around that goal, d, we will have a working group coming together to talk around the four measures that sit

within goal d including regular school attendance. we will have more content to share with you . >> thank you very much. keep up the good work. right now i would like to bring up the first five, raymond lane to do a short presentation. i would like to mention at the time 6 years ago when we were talking about this, the preschool level was not part of this description. it wasn't ready. i'm glad to see that now we are ready and i'm a believer that it's not just at kindergarten when we need to get started. we need to get to this much earlier. the floor is yours. presenter: thank you for including first five in this important discussion. a lot of the patterns that we see in our elementary and secondary education systems establish themselves much earlier as

the children enter formal education. in san francisco in part to your leadership, education starts before kindergarten. we have 83% of the children going to the district now have an chance to go through the school system. i'm going to speak about the care and education aspects of chronic absenteeism, but i'm going to ask shelly and -- to speak more on the first four department side and address the issue holistically. we are currently serving about some where between 5,000-6,000 children a year in san francisco. we have had a very strong focus on

making opportunities available to children to go to these programs, but also to improve the quality of the programs so children are getting the most they can out of it. the research has been very clear and more is better in the area of early care and education. full day programs are better for children and park day programs. children that participate for 2 years in a quality program benefit more than children that only attend for 1 year. it stands for reason that a child that attendance regularly is going to do better than one who only attendance sporadically . the school district has been making these opportunities to making high quality education programs

available to as many children as possible. i thank katie chang for bringing this to our attention years ago that we should be paying attention to these patterns because it speaks to maximizing the benefits for children especially those african american and latino children who is outcomes are certainly not there in terms of our k-12 program education. until very recently, it was very difficult to sort of get any kind of information about attendance in early care and education programs. most of the programs are operated by small non-profits or sort of small business owners in the case of family care homes. so you don't have big information technology departments backing these programs or data analyst. so about 8 years ago, first

five wanted to improve the capacity of these programs to look at their own data and we created a system called coco which is used among 50 plus sites around the city that are participating in preschool for all. about 2-3 years ago we actually started trying to think of ways that we can start to system some of the education around. we have eight sites around the city piloting a program where they drop off their kids they sign off on a tablet computer much on when you go get a cup of coffee and when they do that, the system logs

their child as being present and over the course of the year you have a data base that contains a lot of information about children with attendance patterns and why they maybe absent. now, this is all very preliminary, and so, i can't really sort of speak to this as being a pattern of the city across the whole but this is working on children of color and southeast part of the city as well as the mission district. that's where the major thrust of this work has been. i can tell you there are really no surprises here, but the problem of chronic absenteeism does start as early as preschool. we have children alarming numbers of children that are missing 20% of the days that they could be there and that is going to have a very dramatic effect

on their readiness as they enter kindergarten. what i can also tell you is that the reasons for absence are 99 times out of 100 is going to be something related to illness either of the child or the parent affecting the child's ability to go to school. i'm not sure yet without digging a little bit deeper and having greater conversations with these programs how many of those cases are legitimate illnesses and if they are, i think we have a public health issue we are going to have the address in the community. the other issue we might be dealing with and this is something that maybe more within the realm of care capacity of programs to do something about which is preschool attendance

not mandatory. i'm not saying that it has to be but i think we can maybe do a better job message to go families that whenever a child is in school that is contributing to that child's readiness. missing a day no matter what the reason is, is a lost opportunity. so, i think that as we explore the data further and dig deeper to talk to the teachers and the administrators that work with the children in our universal preschool programs will get a better handle on what exactly the root causes of the absences are. those that we have within our control we have to do something about, and those that speak to broader issues with public health

or chronic health issues i think we are going do have to talk with our community partners. >>supervisor norman yee: thank you very much. you mentioned family support. presenter: thank you supervisor yee. i'm with family support. i wanted to let you know that we are also concerned around chronic absence. we run a jointly funded family resources center initiative along with cyf and family services. we have programs all throughout san francisco and the impacted neighborhoods and populations that have been spoken about today, all have one if not more

family resources in the neighborhood includes case management, parent support groups and developmental screening. as we know some of the reasons why parents are not able to get their children to school especially at the young ages is because of barriers and issues in their lives. family support services that we provide are designed to address that so that kids can have success in school. >>supervisor norman yee: thank you very much. so next up is hope sf. presenter: good afternoon, supervisors, and members of the

public. i'm with hope sfchlt. i'm here to work with health and wellness with education and housing stability. thank you very much for the opportunity to be able to present today on this important issue of chronic absenteeism. excuse me while i just pull up my slides. the work is the focus on the rebuild of the hopes sf sites. there are many things that make the work of hope sf unique in the world of affordable housing and public housing which is our drive

to take an equity approach to this transformation. as you can see from these latest select statistics hope sf residents and communities have experienced this in revoking trauma and see this across all areas with experience. particularly relevant to today's discussion we see the data that 53% of our students attend sf usd schools will complete school. we have partnerships to improve these outcomes. housing and infrastructure alone will not resolve the challenges and repairs of these neighborhoods and it will take more than these programs to address this challenge. we believe this requires an

integrated systems approach. as such, in addition to the physical rebuild of these communities, hope sf holds ambitious capitals and integrated care and education support. this epitomizes the practice to our work. with a began as a pilot for a systems strategy with public investment. i'm proud to say that our city departments are represented here. as well as our cbo partners some of who are members of the public today. this slide at the end here represents this integrated systems approach to our work. hope sf has worked

with sf usd to integrate housing developments. this is the hope sf schools. those eight schools on the outside and you will note their relationship to the neighborhoods. hunters view and potrero and sunnyvale. each hope sf site has targeted partnerships with two hope sf schools represented in the outer circle. each one has one full time liaison, two with the centers. they are responsible on programs that focus on reducing chronic absenteeism through a dual family generation approach. they are staff members of resource centers, funding by dcf and acts as a conduit between

the housing and school sites and partner with schools and help families navigate services and school systems. because they are located within the system, they are able to connect families to the plethora of dual services some of which were mentioned today and the parent child services offered and our other cbo partners. through the support of sf us d include the sites. the activities include but not limited to attending iep meetings and engaging families in teacher parent conferences and enrolling students in programming and attended

families at the housing site, operating walking school buses, things of that nature. in addition we know that student attendance is linked to parents ability and working with families to connect to additional case management, support and services that parents need in addition to support. in addition to potrero, the services wide is working to create a pilot program to support education and the overall objective of this work. finally the hope sf education approach includes the tables at all intersections of this model in front of you. for shared professional development to family and

strengthening approaches and the knowledge needed to address public housing. this needs to increase their understanding, their steps of understanding. they used the terms cultural competence. i think there is a lot of work that needs to be done to really have our schools understand the needs of public housing residents and to bridge that divide. we have these two placed based services if you will, we have housing in the community and we have schools in the community. they currently aren't connected. they are not talking and they don't understand each other. if we want to improve our rates of attendance, that connection, that understanding is very important. that relationship on bridges is really an important piece of this as well as to train the family liasons around this important issue.

this work is challenging and to the dedication and partnerships from the partners, we have seen great success. as an example, at griffith we have 28 students at risk factors working with an education liaison working to improve educational attainment and we have seen great work through the principal and work through the family which is being reviewed by the work and it's continuing to evolving and we appreciate the many partnerships in this room that have come together to make this work possible. thank you very much.

>> thank you very much for your work. we have a public speaker. the division director at the neighborhood centers. public speaker: good afternoon. thank you norman, thank you supervisors for calling this. you've heard from the departments, you've heard from some of my colleagues, you've heard from the interest that the city investment has made on the chronic issue that we continue to have with chronic absenteeism. i serve the southeast community and we need to make sure that we are talking about absenteeism linked to poverty and the stresses that we understand have been communicated today by framework to strategies, interventions, policies,

dollars that we need to invest in the 2-generation support. i serve predominantly latino communities and the african american and samoan community and others. these communities in some instances are marginalized to housing complex that sf hope just spoke about and we see huge disparities of linkages with schools. we have been working with first five and with attendance works now and we have a model of head start and staep supported programs and that allows us to have staff that not only are teachers, but staff that are family service are advocates. they do case management. so

what we've begun to identify in terms of strategy is to look at the families not from a deficit perspective but from a positive spin of intergenerational support with them. we are hosting apparent cafes -- parent cafes to talk about this and for them to do their own sign in when they come through stars and recognize children who have not had any absences. we have seen increase in attendance because of the short and small intervention. >>supervisor norman yee: i know your type -- time is up but i want to ask you a question because i know your program does good work. what supposed would benefit your staff in working with the families? >> thank you for the

question. i think that one of the things that we all lack here together is a more coordinated effort of messaging. every year i transition 240 children approximately out of my system to either unified or to of charters or the private catholics. we are aren't messaging together the value and the importance of what chronic absenteeism does and how it unfortunately builds in lack of skill sets at they move along the school communities. i think the second thing is, it would be important for us to, i really appreciate, though it was a lengthy conversation, i really appreciate the different players that are here and how can we come together to coordinate our thoughts,

strategies and investments to ensure the messaging is getting done correctly to both the parent and to the staff that operationalize this. >>supervisor norman yee: thank you very much. next up and one more speaker after that. >> good morning. you have love this. you target the families and teach them how to write a grant. when the family itself is targeted and you teach them how to write a grant. that means all of these little dots are granted by billions of dollars. this might be a curriculum idea. start teaching early on each individual family how to write a grant. you understand what i'm saying. if you have one grant writer in the

family, then that family can become it's own non-profit. think about that because then the funds wouldn't have to come from school. i have been doing it a lot around the schools in the city and including universities. learn to write a grant. you can do it right here. you can write each individual family, a family can become a non-profit. think about that and this city wouldn't have to pay a dime of it's own money because that comes from a bunch of different money. for example, rent freeze foundation is called angels. she has billions of dollars waiting at the world foundation grant center. correct? what do you think of that idea? each family becomes it's own non-profit. that is something to think about. that wouldn't cost the

city a penny. ask me a question about that. it's pretty good. anyway, i love america. think about that as a new curriculum idea for the schools of san francisco. >>supervisor norman yee: thank you. >> you're welcome. you ms. breed, have a great day. you're welcome. public speaker: good afternoon, supervisors and public. my name is betty canton for potrero housing. the opportunities to speak to share with you the experience about what is happening in the neighborhood.

the potrero housing project through hope san francisco and ymca, what it's doing is building support in the community

>> thank you. last speaker. public speaker: to learn to something good. yes. tell me that you like to learn. yeah. this time i know good luck you're going to stay. good luck. i

hope you are going to stay. c'mon now. come see about school. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>supervisor london breed: i can looking forward to getting the breakdowns. with a we didn't talk about is our kids who are homeless and living in shelters and the absenteeism and what we are doing to

connect those families with services. i want to make sure we are looking at the number of students we are talking about and taking a holistic approach to providing that support and doing everything we can to connect those families to resources working to get them signed up for housing and getting with our neighborhood preference legislation folks who live in a district priority in terms of affordable housing for those particular homeless families and when we build more affordable housing in the southeast sector and other parts of this city that we are working with them to try and help get them into housing in someway and making them a priority. i want to make sure that we are just taking things a step further. that we are not only supporting and taking care of our kids who are thriving and doing well and that they are not neglected. but we are looking at the ones that need more wrap around services for them an their families and how we can do a

better job collaborating to support them so they can support and thrive. because sometimes when we are helping the kids and working with the kids, there are still a lot of wounds at home and challenges at home. we want to make sure we remove as many barriers to success as possible and that's just a lot of work. i'm grateful to the voters of san francisco who are supporting this fund and making sure we are invest negative -- investing in our future. i would like to thank the providers for working on this solution to get rid of this problem once and for all. it's sad in california in terms of our investment and some of the issues we deal with, we are one of the wealthiest cities in san francisco and california is one of the wealthiest states, and we

are in the bottom ten in performance of our kids. i'm glad we have committed folks at the table helping us move things forward. i'm committed to support your efforts, support your plans. i was one of those kids who was problematic and thanks there were a lot of programs and adults and i am here today. as a result, i'm president of the board, but my brother wasn't so fortunate. this is the difference it makes. we hope our kids don't end up in that situation. thank you, supervisor yee for holding this important hearing and hopefully we can get some results out of this and changing the situation now to better. >>supervisor norman yee:

thank you very much. thank you for your patience. i want to thank all the department people and all the individuals who have come out to this hearing. i know it's been longer than what i anticipated. but it's to me and obviously to you a really important issue. if we don't address this issue and tax those kids and the families lives in the future. it was 83% that students that are chronically absent in kindergarten do not read at grade level and research shows that students are more than likely to drop out if by third grade they are not reading at third grade level. we have data and continue to see trends that really to me aren't new.

many of the same schools in 2010 are still showing the highest rates of chronic absenteeism. san francisco unified school district only presented some of this data. i'm hoping to see more of it. the first five is collecting preliminary date at the younger age. that's really one of the more refreshing data that i have heard. i know the connection between the younger age and kindergarten. the population that we are failing and the most vulnerable are the african american children

and latino population. we have programs in the city departments on this issue. through prop c we have strengthened and increased our citywide planning bodies. the ocof which we heard today was passed unanimously in january. close out chronic absenteeism and as a key measure for youth and transitional youth need to be addressed. we are going to have it thrive in the 21st century and discussion with the neighborhood centers for preschool programs working with educational liaison through first five and families who are connected to hope sf. we really need to continue to support these efforts but create a district and across the board

systemwide collaboration to address this. our data must be sound which it seems we are being, we are taking that as a first step and strategies must be developed. for this reason, sometimes we just end up hearing about things and that's the end of the hearing. i'm willing to take this a step further and i hope supervisor breed will join me. i want to create an ad hoc group under the ocof and come up with a plan within the next 6-month. i would like to be comprised of attendance works, sfusd, first five, oece, it's going to be under them, dcyf. the ad hoc workgroup will

develop a comprehensive plan for strategies for policies and implementation to reduce absenteeism in public schools. the plan should include programmatic activities to support not only the students but parents in school sites and research intervention and starting prevention in preschool effective to addressing school attendance. we also know to successfully address this issue, we must use the multi-prone approach which includes our city's agencies, our school district departments and community based organizations and our thought leaders. it was mentioned today, one of these that we should talk about is this common messaging that we should have so we are not all talking about different things. in our approach we should

consider more staff that is working with parents where there is parent liasons based at the school sites or community based organizations. we should discuss the what are some incentives that can get our parents to focus on bringing the children to school everyday. sometimes, i remember when i was with the san francisco foundation focused on one particular grant across the bay and it was really talking about this issue. they didn't know what the words were but somehow the parents are not coming to school and we don't have enough people to talk to these parents. when they do talk to them, sometimes the issues are very very serious and complex. but sometimes they are issues that are not that serious and complex and once we talk to them, we

found out what it is. we found out these parents weren't bringing the kids to school when it's raining. why are you not bringing the kids to school when it's raining? we don't have money to buy umbrellas. or i work in the evening and i can't get up. i'm just too tired to bring my kid to school. so the parent liaison arranged for some of the neighbors to pick up the kids and help out. we need to do that. i want to create this workgroup and hope everybody will join in this effort. i'm committed to also look for resources that's going to fund this effort. so that's my commitment and again, i thank you for being here. is there a motion to file

this hearing. >> so moved. >> okay. any objection? this hearing is filed. this matter is filed with member of peskin being absent. >> yes. anything else on the agenda. >> that completes the agenda for today. >>supervisor norman yee: thank you very much. this meeting is adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] [ meeting is adjourned ] >> ♪ from coast to coast, cops are cracking down...

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>> all right. ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon this our favorite time of the day for the this land use and transportation my name is supervisor malia cowen i'm the chair tomato is supervisor wiener the vice chair and to my left is supervisor peskin our clerk is alicia i would like to thank jim smith and phil jackson in sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting madam clerk, any announcements? >> all electronic devices. completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the march 22 board of supervisors officer involved thank you very much call item one. >> item one an ordinance amending did health code for the

definition of the health care for the water source system. >> ladies and gentlemen, supervisor wiener is the sponsor of this item and supervisor wiener i understand you'd like like us to continue perfect. >> all right. any remarks i would like to make no supervisor wiener wants to continue this item before we continue this item i'd like to open up for public comment and so this that there is any members of the public to speak prelim come up to the podium any public comment? is item one finks for projects requirements all right. seeing none, public comment is closed supervisor wiener. >> i'd like to move we continue this itthor madam cler item two. >> to public works provide the

public assess to the roads and trails the water shed trail supervisor wiener is the author and my understanding supervisor avalos is sick today asked this matter be continued to our april 4th meeting i wanted to check in with supervisor wiener with any remarks. >> no. >> no remarks let's go ahead and move to public comment. anyone from the public wish to comment on item 2 sir, i think this is what you're interested in. >> if this is going to be postponed until april 4th maybe i'll speak at that time. >> all right. anyone from the public wish to comment on item number 2 okay public comment is closed. at this time thank you very much supervisor wiener. >> yeah. i know that supervisor avalos requested april april 4th. >> right. >> i've not spoken and today i

don't know if this is a possibility to do that on april 11th instead of april 4th. >> i don't know the answer to that question madam clerk. >> i'll suggest to the call of the chair. >> we will continue to the call of the chair and check with supervisor avalos is there a motion for that to continue to the call of the chair motion carries madam clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body? >> no madam clerk, any other business before this committee? mshz /* /-. >> no. >> thank you very much this meeting is .

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>> we came to seven straight about 10 years ago. -- 7th street about 10 years ago. the environment is huge. it is stronger than willpower. surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and where a huge amount of them is a healthy environment. >> you are making it safer. push, push. that is better. when i start thinking, i see it

actually -- sometimes, i do not see it, but when i do, it is usually from the inside out. it is like watching something being spawned. you go in, and you begin to work, excavate, play with the dancers, and then things began to emerge. you may have a plan that this is what i want to create. here are the ideas i want to play with, but then, you go into the room, and there maybe some fertile ideas that are becoming manifest that are more interesting than the idea you had initially set out to plan. so there has to be this openness for spontaneity. also, a sense that regardless of the deadline, that you have tons of time so the you can keep your creativity alive and not cut it off and just go into old habits. it is a lot like listening. really listening to watch what

is going to emerge. i like this thing where you put your foot on his back. let's keep it. were your mind is is how you build your life. if you put it in steel or in failure, it works. that works. it is a commitment. for most artists, it is a vacation and a life that they have committed themselves to. there is this notion that artists continue to do their work because of some kind of the external financial support. if that was taken away, artists would still do their art. it is not like there is a prerequisite for these things to happen or i will not do it. how could that be? it is the relationship that you have committed to. it is the vocation. no matter how difficult it gets, you are going to need to produce

your art. whether it is a large scale or very small scale. the need to create is going to happen, and you are going to have to fulfill it because that is your life. top of the morning to you well. >> top of morning. >> all right. all right. . >> elected officials i have a lot here and where are all the supervisors and the police department and the police chief and police chief and all the people are part irish the city attorney and the consul general and there is supervisor oh,

farrell what happens to the o on behalf of the mayor, i want welcome this on the underlying the irish flag and the kickoff of that long but wonderful celebration of salesforce it is a few days off; right? and also welcome the fwrand marshall and also the court committee for our city i see sow many wonderful places out there that come every year i guess you drink it or use it rich cream you're a day older so thank you all for being here we love underlying the flag the irish leaders and communities that are up here during the gold rush and some of you are still here when our first mayor was

born in richard and had a lot of irish mayorss with sheryl we register and gavin newsom doing his job he had another irish baby so i don't know why he named him duchess so you look at around san francisco and see all the streets named for wonderful irish americans that made san francisco what it is mclaren park and o'farrell street and ongoing so, now you're keeping up the tradition with the police chief and the police and irish and the sheriff he she is part irish and your part irish; right? >> yeah. >> so we honor all of you by underlying our flag in front of our city hall and starting the clock there is a word they use your mayor was named the river

river lee it is my great pleasure to introduce our lord mayor, mayor ed lee. >> thank you charlotte i want to extend my warm itself welcome to all of you and the elected officials here our deciding tars and supervisors our assessor-recorder came in nice green carmen i have no problem finding my green tie it says when you are going to wear it yelling at me i want to say congratulations to everyone including the labor unions i say mr. o'connor and some of the labor union it remind me how our city has been built with the history of the our irish americans throughout many, many years and this is a time an opportunity not only to celebrate the staifrz but to review what the community has

done for this great city over many, many decades that is incredible you look at the history of our city and how people have built this city and make sure that it reflected the diversity and history where people came from i know that consul general will mention things we are reminded about the easter rising centennial or the hundred and 605 anniversary of our parade and efforts the city that is another great history for the 32 celebration of our sister city and again, i want to say thank you to the united irish community for leading the efforts and the parade and having the graushd mr. boim and others that are here today and being part of volunteers that keep our celebrations alive and the history alive

over the jim considering the john boyle's or the deferring admit our part of our celebrations of the sister city and charlotte said earlier anita and i have a great trip on behalf of the city to celebrate the sister city and treernd things that help our city for example, the first direct flights between san francisco and dublin e bin gosh what wonderful (clapping.) and from what i hear it is more successful than we knew that was going to be a groundbreaking thing it is more successful and continue this wonderful flight and it brought kids from other parts the city to help us with technology and help exchanges culture exchanges it has brought trade and more cultural and

educations challenges and, of course, through that all we're able to have the t kenny come and visit, of course, timing mike hig goes on and several carbon monoxides with him and the cultural center and talk about the international significance of those exchanges that is so many things have happened as a result of the the sister city work and the united irish communities i want to say an is eve of our salesforce to have leadership on the board like supervisor farrell leading not only the board celebrations but work with the board and i get to do and use the talent of our irish american communities to help us building on the wonderful history to also have fun with the things you're going to see the irish dancers and

like the pipers who i got to invited to the kickoff like the mayors cup and have a great celebration there those are all wonderful things happening with our irish american community from building our city, inform celebrating the cultural to having wonderful talent of people help me run it from the public safety to the elected officials i'm proud of the irish history with that, i'd like to provide the celebrations this morning with a declaration to be given to the city council and to, of course, president of our irish united irish communities first to consul general phillip grant and hereby calory this to be relishing or irish american friendship in the city of san francisco consul general. >> (clapping.)

>> and to the presidents of our united irish societies let me am come up lee yum . >> (clapping.) >> of course, the greatest cast is my irish and, of course, on the eve of salesforce i've got to say aaron go before this is a translation of salesforce, of course, when i first asked about it i had to explain that is not a professional women's soccer cry but salesforce and give it back to charlotte. >> thank you, mayor thank you very much top of the morning now i

introduce supervisor o farrell. >> (clapping.) >> he's somewhere. >> thank you charlotte and mayor ed lee and everyone for being here that is a proud honor to be the mc this irish celebration outside of city hall to carry on the tradition of a supervisor that does it inside of city hall as mentioned over irish community has strong roots in san francisco for generations going back to the gold rush we continue to sustain the city we continue to work in that and be part of the community. and enblaensz but the cultural center out in the subject and so many things we had a a community in san francisco i'm very much proud to be part of it and have irish heritage and proud to

spend on year nature with - and here to be with the celebration i want to start off by introducing someone with us a number of years a greatest friend phil grant was with us since 1992 prior to the poivent appointment of consul general overviews the spokesperson tore the media residents for the foreign ministry for 4 years and in san francisco in september 30th, 2014, when it overviews sworn if with us a number of years and we've gone through not only i'll say the normal course from the irish community buses berkley a rock for the community thank you. and want to welcome you >> (clapping.) >> >> (speaking foreign

language.) >> good morning and thank you to mayor ed lee and supervisor farrell at the board of supervisors and everyone who has came here first of all, on behalf of myself and the council thank you to the grand mash for this week and the we lost two important people of the staff you know worked for the consulate for years here funnel is here our thoughts and prayers with her family that time of the year is one we encounter a lot of the people the community that passed away and i find it especially touching because the tragedy that enveloped our community in berkley and before talking about the parade and event that is the opportunity i have i want to extend the biggest thank you to all of you i want to name a few people

without them and their assistance and coordination our students and their fascinates and everyone when was involved in what happened in berkley on the 16th of june would be difficult i would like to thank charlotte schultz her team working closely did miracles to make sure that we could bring our students home together with their families and on a happy day i don't know if there is is a better report in america they couldn't have done more for us thank you to the police chief and the chief of fire services thai provided honor as the cove i think so went through the city the chief of the fire service helped us in berkley the police

and fire service out of the hearing aids for a week the middle of that trauma i'm sure none has managed to say of a foreign consulate will arrive on your doorstep with the immigration center with a one volunteers their students and families and the counselors i don't i don't think there was a door i had to open for myself or get food for myself i don't have to travel the police and fire services in san francisco did everything so on my and your on behalf of a real appreciative to all of them thank you. >> (clapping.) >> i have a long line of these in my office some to the 1950s 60s you won